The group, Jubilee USA Network, specifically accuses ABC World News and NBC Nightly News of having a "blackout" on coverage of a "scandal that affects everyday Americans and the most vulnerable in our world."

States, cities and other municipal borrowers have lost at least $6 billion as a result of banks manipulating Libor, the short-term lending rate that affects borrowing costs and $800 trillion or so in derivatives contracts around the world,

What has emerged from the Barclay's Bank inquiry is evidence that banks may have in fact been deliberately manipulating Libor rates for years. The evidence so far is that one arm of a bank responding to the Libor poll would change their number based on...